Frank Lloyd Wright was an artist, teacher, iconoclast, utilitarian, democrat, adulterer, cult-like leader, wayward in life and thought. This essay is so good I'm posting it again.
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It was a treat to work on this essay by Noah Charney. Can AI replace art experts in settling scores over attribution and provencance?
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Delighted that Gwendoline Riley and Kei MIller - two absolutely brilliant writers were recognised by the Windham-Campbell prize committee. Congratulations. Miller writes personal essays like no one else.
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Deplorable doesn't even begin to describe these people.
The Guardian has been brilliant lately at exposing Farage's filth and his crew's miserable, small-minded vengefulness at every turn.
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On Robert Frost: 'He liked to say that he “had as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.” Frost was a playful poet, but in order to play, we needed to agree on the shape of the field, the rules of the game.' Fab essay in @yalereview.bsky.social
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We like to work with practitioners @aeon.co, but boy can this architect write: A wonderful, challenging, contradition-accepting essay on Frank Lloyd Wright by Andrew Deming
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And the joint winners were...Nell Osbourne and Moist Press for Ghost Driver, and Rebecca Grandsen and Tangerine Press for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. I'm so delighted that we found such stellar winners.
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The Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize. What you need to know.
Reserve your place at the panel celebrating the shortlisted authors and presses of this years Queen Mary Prize for Small Press Fiction ⬇️
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It's unlikely you'll have read these books which are not on the radar of most reviewers! Judging this prize has been an honour: all these superb novels deserve a place on the front tables @waterstones.bsky.social @hatchards.bsky.social etc
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A truly berautiful review (you can't often say that) of what sounds like an extraordinary book. I've not read Mary Costello. But I will now.
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A brilliant argument for Doris Lessing's continued relevance. Lessing is still golden, says Catherine Taylor
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Republic of Consciousness Prize (now the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize) news alert. The SHORTLIST is out.
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I'm with you entirely on that. Courtiers, royal secretaries, police protection officers, palace guards, everyone who enabled Andrew and/or turned a blind eye must explain themselves.
A no brainer. The rolling back of trans rights that we've seen across a range of institutions emboldened by the supreme court ruling that biology is everything is an absolute tragedy.
I suspect all those decisions will have been made by committee with private secretaries' views carrying a lot of weight. Lots of people around the Queen prioritising 'protecting' her, and pandering to her wish to protect the vile human that is Andrew.
Venture Global LNG. Cheniere Energy. Just two of the big US energy companies set to benefit from the hike in oil and gas prices in the Middle East, according to @nytimes.com — both big donors to Trumps election campaign.
A brilliant and scary piece, offering a taste of the near climate changed future. From the ever vigilant @gavinmevans.bsky.social
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From one writer to as many others as I can reach. You're welcome.
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Had to laugh listening to debates on the @bbcnews.bsky.social about whether Andrew MW was or wasn't in public office when 'serving' as a trade envoy for the UK. His very existence is a public office, from nappies to prison cell.
Really? You're reporting on rubble?
Why aren't you asking why Trump is the only person of interest missing from the redacted Epstein files? Why aren't you asking whether Pam Bondi isn't in contempt of her office? Or why the DoJ is in the pocket of the POTUS?
It's a funny feeling seeing a longlist that you've carefully poured over with your fellow judges @stuhennigan.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social - both of them discerning and serious about Indie fiction. You feel a tenderness towards each book. Every one on this list was a brilliant read.
We're very good in the UK at making a lot of noise & feeling outraged. Mandelson is self-serving, treasonous, under investigated. But what will come of it? I'm wiling to bet nothing. Nothing has happened with Baroness Mone, Boris Johnson is still a free man. etc
She's always good, but today she's raging and righteous. And it rocks.
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Just sharing a guide from @parismarx.com to getting off US tech and switching to politically disinvested and largely European-owned companies like Proton and Zoho.
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Excited to announce the new Psyche profile. A portrait written from the inside out.
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AI has no imagination, empathy or inner life, so can it write novels? Hell yes, just not good ones.
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This is unbelievably sad - for me there's so much recognition, same era, equally complicated time with parents who saw their children as alien. The mother who had next to no kindness in her. So painful. Bravo
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He's astounding in it Surekha
